Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by way of authors for whom English-language literature used to be regularly a secondary difficulty. In its approach, the paintings interrogates those authors’ perspectives at the newly-emerging experience of ‘Britishness’, discovering them in lots of instances to be extra nuanced and not more resistant than has usually been thought of. It appears essentially on the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) within the context of either their Welsh- and English-language affects and time spent traveling among the 2 nations, contemplating how those authors spoke back to and reimagined the hot nationwide identification via their poetry and prose.

This examine explores the delicate and complicated importance of foodstuff and consuming in modern women's fiction. Sarah Sceats finds how preoccupations with nutrition, its intake and the physique are vital to the paintings of writers resembling Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.

Those twelve essays examine the complicated pleasures and difficulties of attractive with James Joyce for next writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, widely used, and biographical effect on an interesting collection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the Forties to the twenty-first century.

Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural move, 1750–1837 examines the approaches of cultural move among Britain and Germany throughout the own Union, the interval from 1714 to 1837 whilst the kings of britain have been at the same time Electors of Hanover. whereas students have typically serious about the political and diplomatic implications of the private Union, Alessa Johns deals a brand new viewpoint through tracing sociocultural repercussions and investigating how, within the interval of the yank and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated detailed discourses of liberty even if they have been nonrevolutionary international locations.

First released in 1972. John D. bounce, a number one authority on Byron and the Romantic interval, right here supplies an account of Byron’s literary fulfillment with regards to the age of revolutions within which he lived and on the subject of his personal personality and private conditions. Professor bounce focuses upon the main poems and likewise discusses Byron’s prose, largely his letters and journals.